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Showing videos filed under: Change to Win
Week In Review: Which Side Are You On?
November 28, 2009What happened to organized labor in the US? With the decline of manufacturing jobs and rise of female-dominated service fields, does the old labor union model still hold up, or do we need new ways of organizing and supporting workers? And what happened to solidarity?Which Side Are You On? Organizing Labor in America
November 24, 2009What happened to organized labor in the US? With the decline of manufacturing jobs and rise of female-dominated service fields, does the old labor union model still hold up, or do we need new ways of organizing and supporting workers? And what happened to solidarity?Which Side Are You On, The Body Toxic, and Matthew Hoh
November 23, 2009During the Great Depression, the labor movement was a major player pushing a progressive agenda and helping to put people back to work. While we've heard plenty of comparisons between the current recession and the Depression, we haven't seen a return of the kind of militancy that came from labor in the 20s and 30s. With all the anger swirling around right now, where's the organizing?Whose American Dream, Anyway?
October 29, 2009Is the American Dream something for rich bankers to achieve by taking taxpayer dollars to give themselves ever-larger bonuses, or does that money belong to all of us? And is protesting in the streets and at the bankers' meetings the best way to push for more equitable policies and stronger regulation of the financial industry?Whose American Dream, Bush-Era Propaganda and Kyria Abrahams
October 28, 2009Joining us to discuss whether the American Dream should apply just to rich bankers or to the rest of us are Matt Taibbi, journalist with Rolling Stone and author of The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion, George Goehl, executive director of National People's Action, Christina Clausen, International Representative, United Food & Commercial Workers Union and Change to Win, and Rob Robertson of the Right To The City Alliance and Picture the Homeless.LIVE AT NOON: Showdown in Chicago: People vs. Banks
October 28, 2009Who lays claim to the American Dream? That's the question we're asking today on our live panel discussing the protests at the American Bankers Association meeting in Chicago. Is the American Dream something for rich bankers to achieve by taking taxpayer dollars to give themselves ever-larger bonuses, or does that money belong to all of us?Inland Empire: Warehouse Workers Organize in California
April 9, 2009Workers in one of the few growing parts of our economy --- namely import processing -- are organizing for a union. That would change the foundation of their economic house, they say. Greg Denier of Change to Win and Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research bring us up to date and discuss why warehouse workers may be at the center of the 21st century economy.Is Another Economic Order Possible?
April 2, 2009Protests erupt in London as world leaders gather for the G-20 summit. Today on GRITtv, Dean Baker co-director of the Center for Economic Policy and Research and the author of Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy, Ann Lee professor of economics at New York University and visiting professor at Peking University in Beijing, and Greg Denier Communications Director of Change to Win discuss the Summit, theLabor and Capital at the G-20, The Good Negro, and Have Anti-War Voices Gone Silent?
April 1, 2009Protests erupt in London as world leaders gather for the G20 summit. Is another economic order possible? Dean Baker and others on the global economic crisis. Tim Noon of the International Trade Union Confederation. And we speak to Tracey Scott Wilson about her play, The Good Negro.UNITE HERE! America's Labor President
November 21, 2008Americans have been feeling it for months, but according to new survey from the National Association for Business Economics, 48 out of 50 economists now officially agree: the United States is in a recession. And who bears the brunt? Not the CEO’s who fly into Washington, DC on their private jets… It's American workers.
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